God's word is clear concerning the "Promised Land" ownership by the Nation of Israel. Jehovah God gave it to Abraham, the first Jew, and founding father of the Jewish Nation, as their homeland, by an everlasting, divine covenant. Even after the twelve great grandsons of Abraham, the sons of his grandson Jacob (renamed Israel), were driven from their homeland by a drought into Egypt, the Promised Land was still theirs. Their descendants became slaves in Egypt for two hundred years but the Promised Land Covenant was still in effect, and they returned to their homeland when God delivered them from their slavery. If the Abrahamic Covenant was still in effect after 200 years of slavery in Egypt, it was still in effect when the Romans drove them out again in 137 AD. The Roman Emperor, Hadrian and following Emperors would not let the Jews return, and they were dispersed throughout the world, without a national homeland until 1948 when the US led the United Nations to re-establish the Jewish Homeland in Israel. But, remember this ... It was a miracle of God which opened that small window of time for Israel and not the United Nations. It could not have happened before the holocost and would not have been possible after 1948 because of growing Muslim oil power. Here is God's Abrahamic Covenant of a Promised, permanent Homeland and a Promised Savior Messiah, to the Jews. RB
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram (Father of the Jewish nation) , Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: (Jesus came through Jewish lineage) And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed (Jesus). So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD.... and called upon the name of the LORD." Genesis 12:1-8.
If I were a Presbyterian, I would either see an immediate reversal of their recent anti-Jewish action or I would immediately leave their ranks and find a Bible believing church. Here is the anti-Semitic, un-Christian, stance they have taken....
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
TILTS AGAINST ISRAEL
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By Rabbi Allen S. Maller June 22
The Presbyterian Church (USA) voted on June 20, 2014 by a narrow margin of 310-303 to give a big victory to divestment supporters inside and out- side the 1.8 million-member Protestant Church, to use this strategy to pressure Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.
The divestment movement, is particularly strong in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and almost passed a similar resolution two years ago.
Most Protestant churches oppose divestment. In 2012, the United Methodist Church rejected
divestment as a tool to pressure Israel.
The issue has split the Presbyterian Church for the last decade. Then, in January 2014 the tilt against Israel became evident when “Zionism Unsettled,” a booklet produced by a church-chartered Mission, argued that the right of a Jewish nation to exist in the Holy Land is based on bad theology.
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest branch of Judaism in North America, came to speak before the Presbyterian General Assembly the day before the vote.
The Reform Rabbi warned that a divestment vote would be taken as a sign that the Presbyterian church has aligned itself with those in the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement who vilify Israel and often question its right to exist.
“It would be an attack on the Jewish community and religion,” especially in the wake of the publication of “Zionism Unsettled,” the Reform Rabbi said.
Rabbi Jacobs offered to arrange a meeting in Jerusalem the next week for Presbyterian leaders to talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if they voted against divestment.
Many who spoke against the measure urged their fellow Presbyterians to accept Rabbi Jacobs’ offer, but the majority were not open to the opportunity.
The authors of the divestment resolution did affirm the church’s support for a two-state solution and also stated that the resolution does not mean an alignment with the overall strategy of the global BDS movement, whose supporters often argue that Israel has no right to exist, and whose views the resolution did not reject.
They also did not also call for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state; nor did they call for Hamas, the new part of the Palestinian government, to stop firing rockets at Israeli towns.
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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. Gen.17:8.
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD. Ex.6:8.
But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people. Lev.20:24.
And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. Judges 2:1
"...I will never break my covenant with you." He hasn't and He won't.
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God's regathering of the Jews to their Covenant homeland ....
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. Isa.11:11-12 ... see also Jer.16:14-15...Jer.23:3....Zeph.3:20
"From the four corners of the earth." RB
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